How Fleets can Succeed in 2023 by using Route Optimization?

How Fleets can Succeed in 2023 by using Route Optimization?

How Fleets can Succeed in 2023 by using Route Optimization?

With the ever-increasing global inflation, routing has emerged as one of the most crucial aspects of fleet management to get the grip on fuel expenditure. When done manually, fleet managers are always occupied on the routing component of fleet management. However, it is next to impossible to find the optimum routes without spending unjustifiable amounts of time on managing those delivery routes. Besides that, it also increases the risk of overbooking vehicles and excess fuel usage leading to escalated operational costs.

There are literally millions of potential route options if you only have a few trucks with 10 stops each. The route optimization software is designed to calculate the best routes in a matter of seconds, maximizing the number of deliveries and increasing revenue your business exponentially. With route optimization finding the quickest path isn’t the only option here. When incorporating variables, route planning aims to reduce the amount of time spent traveling overall while making any number of stops. The software considers the following variable while planning optimized routes for deliveries:

  • Delivery time windows
  • Vehicle load capacity (weight and/or volume)
  • Driver schedule
  • Driver proximity and/or hub location
  • Traffic congestion
  • Accidents on the roads
  • How far the different stops are from one another

Eagle-I’s route optimization provides an opportunity for dispatchers and route planners to plan routes, create a series of stops, add multiple zones for closer monitoring and alerts. These customized routes can be created by simply providing the starting and ending points of your journey and the route will be pushed to the driver through specifically designed Eagle-i mobile applications. Drivers can react to last-minute changes by adapting routes already underway. It is designed for two-way information flow between drivers and dispatchers. Fleet manages can send command through voice call by incorporating Bluetooth headset with Eagle-I tracking devices. Drivers can also send feedback related to each task. RMS dashboard can be accessed for clear indication of total number routes, in process jobs, completed tasks. Tasks can be marked as complete, cancelled or failed by supervisor on RMS dashboard. With Eagle-I tailored journeys can also be created for special handling and perishable good

Optimizing your routes will not only save your time but can create more opportunities to perform extra jobs and take on more clients by tightening the service windows. Moreover, dynamic routing and accurate scheduling can be used as tool to improve customer satisfaction. 

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What Is Aggressive Driving and How to Curb It?

What Is Aggressive Driving and How to Curb It?

What is aggressive driving and how to curb it?

Whether you’re the offender or the victim, road rage is an ailment that has the ability to impact every motorist on the road. Even though exhibiting aggressive driving behaviorcan be fatal but it is preventable. If your fleet has drivers who are aggressive, there is probability the that they may not be aware of a problem or know how to control their own rage.

 

Instructing them “don’t drive furious!” is not sufficient. It is crucial to identify

 

What are the symptoms of Road Rage?

Road rage and aggressive driving behavior include:

· Over Speeding

· Swerving between lanes

· Tailgating other vehicles

· Honking without cause

· Running stop lights and signs

· Harsh braking

· No turn signals

· Harsh acceleration

· Using a vehicle as a barrier

· Harassing drivers by flashing headlights, gestures or yelling.

· Intentionally hitting another vehicle or person

 

What causes Road Rage?

Following are the factors that can contribute to road rage:

· Traffic delays or Heavy Traffics

· Running late

· Anonymity

· Disregard for others and the law

By leveraging Eagle-I fleet tracking and management platform fleet managers can not only assess their driver performance but can identify the root cause of aggressive driver behaviour, and can train them accordingly

Driver Scorecard:

Eagle-I driver scorecard gives safety score to every driver based on how well they performed on prior trips which helps fleet managers in rapidly identifying high-risk drivers by analysing their ratings who frequently engage in risky driving behaviors such sharp braking, speeding, strong acceleration, and hard turning.

These scores are calculated based on several important metrics measured by other vehicles’ onboard sensors and tracking devices. With the seamless integration of IoT-powered telematics devices, violations or over speeding can be automatically recorded, synchronized and reflected on the Eagle-I platform.

In-cabin alerts:

While aggressive driving is a traffic infraction, escalating road rage is illegal. To keep drivers alert and accident-free, Eagle-I has introduced new in-cabin alert systems to prevent car accidents.

AI-Based Cameras:

To provide a more holistic view, video telematics can be used to combine dashcam footage with vehicle analytics to detect risky events with the help of AI. With the help of video telematics fleet managers can be notified when the driver gets too close to the vehicle in front that they may collide. The sensor will not only beep and warn the driver but will also generate an alert to the fleet manager. Similarly in case of drifting and switching lanes fleet managers will get an instant alert. Fleet managers can also set the alerts in case of forward collision, lane switch, over speeding, harsh braking, signal violation, or seat belt absence. Similarly, if someone other than the assigned driver is driving the vehicle, the driver’s absence event will be triggered.

To ensure safe driving culture and achieve your fleet safety goals, Eagle-I provides the facility to save video clips triggered by key events to the cloud for driver coaching, later review or evidentiary support. Data can be easily accessed and analysed through Eagle-I dashboard.

Get your fleet outfitted with telematics today and stay ahead-of-the-curve with the gold standard in trucking technology.

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Ensure structural integrity by leveraging IoT in Ready-Mix Concrete

Ensure structural integrity by leveraging IoT in Ready-Mix Concrete

 

Ensure structural integrity by leveraging IoT in Ready-Mix Concrete

The Art of Precision: Achieving Perfect Concrete Mixes 

When it comes to meeting the technical specifications for a given construction project, ready mix concrete is the art of choosing the types of ingredients, the right proportions to use them along with the right environmental conditions. To improve the strength, durability, and workability of ready-mix concrete one needs to ensure the quality of concrete during mixing, transporting, placing, and curing stays maintained.

The “70-in-7” Rule: A Flawed Approximation  

It takes around 28 days for a normal slab of concrete to cure to full strength. But adhering to the “70-in-7” rule in ready-mix concrete, a slab will attain 70% of its maximal strength 7 days after it is poured which is just a rough approximation without considering particular environmental elements such as temperature, humidity and evaporation rate which affects the curating speed. 

By leveraging IoT, the conventional construction industry can be revolutionized. IoT-based distributing sensors can be embedded within a slab at various lengths and depths before concrete is poured to gain visibility into concrete’s performance throughout the curing process.  

Ready-Mix Concrete
Ready-Mix Concrete

Data-Driven Insights for Improved Efficiency and Cost Savings 

The historical data of supply chain monitoring, job scheduling and order management can be sliced and diced to make effective KPIs to improve the bottom line. Besides this, the fleet data from ready-mix producers can be drilled down to specific drivers to improve their driver behavior or can represent a holistic view of your entire fleet. The data can be accessed via cloud from any device at any time.

Revolutionizing Construction with IoT Sensors.

Eagle-IoT ready-mix concrete management solution offers an efficient approach to the ready-mix fleet’s real-time collection of data. It allows you to manage slumps in transit and monitors load data over time with axle load monitoring solution. Alerts are generated when the threshold limit is breached. 

Ready-Mix Concrete

Optimizing Curing Conditions for Peak Performance 

To optimize the performance of ready-mix concrete to meet specific performance requirements, Eagle-IoT ready-mix monitoring solution allows you to keep a check on the drum rotation while the vehicle is stationary or in transit. A water flow meter can be used to monitor the water supplied to the concrete. Besides this temperature updates and alerts can also be generated automatically when a predetermined threshold temperature is breached. This real-time data helps contractors optimize critical operations. 

How to Lower Your Fleet TCO?

How to Lower Your Fleet TCO?

How to Lower Your Fleet TCO?

With the global economic downturn, how can you manage your fleet way out?For anticipating future market changesusing data and statistics,telematics is a critical tool for managing the productivity and asset utilization to improve total cost of ownership (TCO).

The total cost of ownership (TCO) is a step to understanding the true return on investment from the time of purchase to the vehicle’s sale or retirement. It help buyers and owners determine their fleet’s direct and indirect costs. The cost depends on several factors including assets acquisition, operation, and resource costs.

To operate as a cost-efficient fleet in a recession, determining asset utilization is of significant importance. Eagle-I offers asset utilization to understand the total cost of your fleet while assessing the fleet to the needs of the firm: evaluating the maximum use of the fleet, the right size of the fleet, and pinpointing the vehicles that drain the budget, and determining the under-utilized or over-utilized assets with the extensive records of historical data.
The Eagle-i analytics dashboard provides the utilization of assets in terms of distance travelled, hours plied, and trips made. In addition to this, with a single click, a complete utilization comparison is available at the asset level and the accumulative performance of the fleet under one site or a category.
Keeping expenditures under control is an important aspect of fleet management. Eagle-I fleet management can be used as a budgeting and planning tool to identify fixed and indirect expenses. Monitoring vehicle health and driver behaviour, utilization of assets, and fuel usage are part of life cycle cost analyses for your fleet.
Eagle-I offers the big data analytical tools and deep expertise to assess your fleet needs, assist your sustainability goals in achieving net zero and identify the best path forward for your organization to improve your TCO.
To make informed decisions about what’s best for your fleet, partner with Eagle-I to find ways in which you can streamline these processes to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).
Is your fleet equipped to witness smart fleet expansion at CAGR of 10.2% between 2022 and 2031?

Is your fleet equipped to witness smart fleet expansion at CAGR of 10.2% between 2022 and 2031?

How fleet owners can make their fleet safe?

According to an analysis by Transparency Market Research, Inc., the Smart Fleet Management Market is expected to grow to US$ 962.6 Billion by 2031 end.

Based on smart fleet management industry research, it is now of paramount importance to integrate advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in vehicles in order to ensure the best fleet management practices. As per the statistics, the market would expand at a CAGR of 10.2% between 2022 and 2031.

IoT-based fleet management have become more widely popular in recent years to improve fleet management efficiency, driver safety, increase productivity, better fuel economy, and timely preventive maintenance. Due to the use of IoT and telematics for fleet management, solution providers and OEMs are projected to have lucrative business possibilities over the forecast period. Additionally, the use of cloud-based services and artificial intelligence technologies will certainly pave the way for better connected fleets.

The surge in customer demand for shared mobility over the past several years has created considerable potential for OEMs and automakers to include smart fleet management technologies. It is anticipated that automakers would use connected fleet management to optimize shared mobility services, driving the growth of the smart fleet management market

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